Today is Sunday, which means it is Song Review day
Today I'm going to be reviewing and reacting to Lana Del Rey's new single Mariners Apartment Complex
Which she just released on Friday, September 14th.
Very excited to review this song from Lana Del Rey because I'm a big fan of her and all of her previous work
I'm not sure what to expect on this song because she has been working with a new producer.
So let's get right into it. I have not listened to the song yet. So I'll be reviewing and reacting to the song.
Let me know what you think in the comments. Please remember to subscribe if you like this video. Let's have a listen.
Cool, I'm already a very big fan of the start just hearing really good music and not being overly
produced with the kind of computerized sounds that we have nowadays just to have that raw
beautiful sounding piano and very light guitar and strings in the background.
I expect her to come in right now with kind of her dark
sultry
voice right here.
Great start, I mean I really really like the mysterious
build to the song lyrically
Like it's hard to come by really strong lyrics nowadays, especially in the pop world
I mean Lana Del Rey's not a pop artist. She's more of a
she's more of a
alternative artist I would say so
She makes me believe that she is the primary songwriter on the song
I'm sure she has help from other writers, but you can tell from the lyrics they are very personal and I think she's singing here
about for herself. There's definitely
some
callbacks to other
pop culture in the song "candle in the wind" that's an Elton John song. So far
I really really think it is a strong song. Lyrically and that they're coming like straight from her heart and
It also makes the song shine on
Different level of passion compared to other songs when you don't have that very deeply
passionate rooted lyrics
You're lost at sea then I'll command your boat to me. That to me almost is the
kind of a
looking back on maybe that she's been lost before but she kind of
retakes control of her life and then the end chorus here.
Great chorus in my opinion
I'm your man. I think that's a really really cool lyric because she's saying I'm your man when she's
she's not a man, but I
think that's a call back pop culture reference to a Leonard Cohen song.
He has a lyric that says "I'm your man" and a song that is called
"I'm your man" and Lana Del Rey is known publicly to be a
a big fan of Leonard Cohen and takes a lot of inspiration
lyrically from Leonard Cohen, so that could be a callback to Leonard Cohen's lyric of "I'm your man"
I fucked up I know that but Jesus can a girl just do the best she can
Positive lyrics uplifting into the pre-chorus here saying that she's a believer in
humanity and people that they can change and that she's trying her best and she's made mistakes in the past
It's a 4-minute song but really
There's no bridge to this song. So there's a lot of space at the beginning and end for a build-up and a slowdown
instrument of an instrumentation kind of
structure.
Now this is a new producer that she's working with and you can really tell that from
the different additions that he's doing and layering of the vocals that he's doing to add that
have an extra layer of that
mystery to the song.
And then that's the end of the song. Biased review because I'm a fan of this kind of throwback to 1970s
slow ballad song where you just have a few instruments to hear
piano, drums, and strings that are and the guitar that are really making the the bulk of the sound
there's there's no electronic sounds except some soft synth at the end to build that mysterious sound, but it is a
Throwback to an old kind of classic ballad song. Very positive review.
Let me know what you think if you like the song
Where do you think you might listen to this song if you were to listen to the song?
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